The Other ‘casa grande’: Reflections on the Novel and “Las muñecas que hace Juana no tienen ojos”
Keywords:
Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, “Las muñecas que hace Juana no tienen ojos”, Los cuentos de Juana, La casa grande, transfictionalityAbstract
“Las muñecas que hace Juana no tienen ojos,” included in Los cuentos de Juana (1972) by Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, is a grotesque and highly innovative text that recovers –or at least seems to recover– the background, as well as certain characters and themes, from his only novel, La casa grande (1962). However, the articulation of this intertextual, or, more precisely, transfictional link is paradoxical: those elements both are and are not the same as those in the novel. By analyzing the continuities and discontinuities between the two works, this article seeks to highlight, from a perspective that has so far remained unexplored, the radical nature of “Las muñecas,” which stands as the emblem of the experimentalism that runs through Los cuentos de Juana as a whole.
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